Emery Emery heard their answer to her question. It was a resounding ‘no’, so even in their books there was no legitimate reason for their Alpha to get rid of her from this pack. And them hearing the way he’d gone about it, in secret, so none of them would know about it either. That told them right there Ivan had done something deceitful. She turned back to him as he knelt there on the ground before her now. “I was going to wait to do this,” she told him. “Confront you, about your deceit, for, oh... nine more days, give you a chance to come clean or apologize to me even, but I see now that was never going to happen.” She told him, and she could see him thinking about her very words, ‘nine days.’ He was doing the math all wolves knew when full moons were, how far away they were even. His

